2G satellite system on horizon
By Xin Dingding | China Daily | Updated: 2008-12-31 07:47
China will launch more navigation satellites next year to develop the second-generation Beidou satellite navigation system - China's equivalent to the US GPS navigation system - an official said.
The country aims to complete the second-generation Beidou system by 2011, a director with the China National Administration of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Application said yesterday at a conference commemorating five years of the Beidou system's operation.
The new system will outperform its predecessor in positioning accuracy, coverage territory, user capacity and anti-jamming capabilities, the director, who refused to be named, said.
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